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Our first day in Elan Valley and it was gloriously sunny. We’d driven and walked a little way around Pen y Garreg, Garreg Ddu, and Caban Coch. After a leisurely coffee at the Ty Penbont cafe we sauntered alongside the river to the base of Craig Goch. Craig Goch is the highest dam upstream in…
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Although we have visited Elan Valley many times we had never been to the top of the Claerwen (Clear Light) dam. Built between 1946 – 1952 by a workforce of almost five hundred men the outside of dam blends in with the other Elan Valley dams, although the inside is a concrete structure. Because British…
Judith Barrow
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Judith Barrow 